Ring



May 5, 1925. 1,536,408

. L. S. PINCK RING Filed Jan. 14, 1922 Patented May 5, 1925..

untried; sxra rags LOUQIS S PINCK, OF MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA.

RING:

Applicationifiledpifianuary 14, 1922. Seria1 Nox529J37= To all whom it may concern:

Be ielmew thatl, Louis-=55. Pmcn, citizen of the United States, residing at Minneapolis,,, if ni the county of .Hennepin and State of lVlinnesot-a, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Kings; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others slrilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

Particularly, my invention has for its object to improve the construction of engagement rings or rings having crowns with set tings or without settings in such manner that wedding rings, or rings of the band type, may be closely seated and nested to gether, giving much the appearance of a single ring when placed together on the fin gel. As hitherto constructed, the expanded rowns of so-called engagement rings, or rings of that type, prevent a simple hand ring or ring having; the same cross section throughout from being closely nested together on the finger Without space between the two rings and, moreover, the crowns of such engagement rings are such as to produce rapid wear on the face of the wedding ring or hand ring. These wedding or band rings are frequently made with ornamental faces or peripheral surfaces and are sometimes set with small stones, making it more 'han ever important that such ornamental or set surfaces be not subjected to excessive wear. The most serious objection, however, is the fact that the two rings would not seat fiatwise together without space between the rings and that this not only causes bad appearance but discomfort to the wearer.

The above defects are overcome, in accordance with my invention, by undercutting); or depressing the crown of the set or crowned ring at least at one side thereof and thereby forming said ring at that side with a flat circumferential surface or edge against which the wedding or hand ring may be closely seated at one edge throughout its entire circumference and without bringing the peripheral face of the hand ring into frictional wearing contact with said crown. This, when the crown of the one ring is large, seats a portion of the hand ring under the crown and provides a structure in which the two rings, in effect, make up a two-part composite ring, which, when worn may have very much the effect of a single ring, and'may be"worn--withoutianygdiscome fort to the wearer. i

'llhe lllVGlll'ilOIl; is illustrated inthe acconjr panying drawin. wherein like ChaRa-QfiQIi w indicate like parts throughout the several news.

Referring to the drawings:

Fig. 1 is a side elevation showing the two rings nested together;

Fig. 2 is a vertical axial section of the two rings shown in Fig. 1; and Fig. 3 is a side elevation of the crowned ring or ring of the engagement ring type looking at that face thereof against which the hand ring is adapted to be seated.

'lhe band ring is indicated by the numeral f and the crowned ring by the numeral 5 The crown 6 of the ring 5 is shown as a holllpw structure set with a diamond or gem '7. )V it will be noted that the ring 6 on one side is formed with a flat face or surface 8, that is, a surface that would contact with a flat surface or plane, and, hence, is adapted to contact directly with one side or edge of the hand ring t throughout its circumference: It will also be noted that the crown 6 has an overhanging segmental portion 9 that approximately follows the line of the exterior 9 of the body of the ring 5, and that this portion or ledge gradually blends into the body of said ring so that the said ledge will clear the periphery of the ring 4; but will not mar the exterior appearance of the crownformin portion of thering 5.

In actual practice, the above described construction of the crowned ring for use in connection with band rings has been found highly satisfactory for all of the purposes had in view.

As used in this specification and in the claims, the term crown is used broadly to include an expanded head-like portion on the ring, which, transversely of the ring, is wider than the body of the ring, and regardless of whether the crown is jeweled pr0 vicled with a monogram or otherwise fin ished or formed.

What I claim is:

1. A crowned ring, the crown of which projects laterally at both sides thereof, the said ring at at least one side being formed with a substantially flat continuous hand ring engaging surface against which a hand ring may be closely positioned, the crown of said ring directly outward of said hand ring reference particularly to Figs. 2 and 3,

engaging surface being undercut and formed with a segmental under surface extended approximately on the line of the outer surface of the ring body and adapted to closely engage but to clear the outer portion of a band ring applied against the said band ring engaging surface of said ring, whereby the crowned ring is adapted to be independently rotated and to be moved axially into engagement with and from the body of said crowned ring.

2. An article of jewelry comprising, an engagement ring consisting of a circular band having a jewel mounting thereon arranged to hold a jewel centrally over the band thereby closing the face of the jewel mounting, said jewel mounting having a depression formed in the under face thereof at one side of said band to receive a circular ring against the band of the engagement ring, such portion of the circular ring being concealed by the mounting on the engagement ring.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature.

LOUIS S. PINCK. 

